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2007-07-18 Home Front: WoT

NYTimes: Six Years After 9/11, the Same Terror Threat

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Posted by Delphi 2007-07-18 13:49|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 I can't read the NYT. Sorry. I just can't even get through the first few paragraphs before I fall asleep.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2007-07-18 19:04|| 2007-07-18 19:04|| Front Page Top

#2 Can someone summarize what they say? I have the same problem.

Posted by twobyfour 2007-07-18 19:08|| 2007-07-18 19:08|| Front Page Top

#3 Six years after 9/11, the same NYT. But six years ago Saddam was pursuing missile research and violating no-fly zones and the Taliban were openly planning our demise from Kabul. I suppose the NYT would prefer 59 million people living under Saddam and Mullah Omar, but I wouldn't.

Posted by Darrell 2007-07-18 19:23|| 2007-07-18 19:23|| Front Page Top

#4

sweet justice

Posted by AT 2007-07-18 19:33|| 2007-07-18 19:33|| Front Page Top

#5 Nearly six years after the Sept. 11 attacks, the hundreds of billions of dollars and thousands of lives expended in the name of the war on terror pose a single, insistent question: Are we safer?

Not while the NYT consistently sides with America's enemies.

The Iraq war has spawned Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia as the most visible and capable affiliate of the original terrorist group, inspiring jihadists around the world and drawing money and recruits to their cause.

They act like it's a bad thing for us to have a nice off-shore killing field for the global jihadi supply. At first, I was skeptical of the "flypaper" effect. Now, I'm all for it. Whatever we can do to draw off the hordes of Islamic psychos is just fine. I'll go so far as to say that holding Mecca and Medina as physical hostages would create the ultimate flypaper.

The explosion of radical Internet sites has created self-generating cells of would-be terrorists in many Western countries.

Wrong! Far be it from the NYT to admit how it is Islam that creates "self-generating cells of would-be terrorists".

Lebanese Hezbollah, rarely considered likely to attack in the United States, now may be more likely to consider doing just that in response to a perceived threat from American forces to itself or its sponsor, Iran.

This is nothing more than a thinly warmed-over version of "killing terrorists only makes more terrorists". Hezbollah has little in the way of infrastructure to make attacks on American soil. It is no shock that the NYT would so easily mistake hot air for real substance; A feat they engineer with stunning regularity.

jihadist sentiment has so far turned out to hold little attraction for American Muslims, by contrast with those in Europe generally and the United Kingdom in particular, with its large population of South Asian immigrants.

... some of it has come apart in the past year, with Pakistani troops abandoning patrols in North Waziristan and allowing greater freedom of movement to Al Qaedas core.

Exactly how is it America's fault that a traitorous Muslim nation happens to have an incredibly ineffectual military?

All told, despite the absence of any new attack on American soil since 2001, the conclusion that Al Qaeda will continue to enhance its capabilities to attack the United States suggests some miscalculation in the administrations basic formula against terrorism: that attacking the jihadists overseas would protect the homeland.

Gah! The Bush administration's only "miscalculation" has been to keep calling Islam the Religioin of Peace [spit]. Anything short of nuclear annihilation will permit the MME (Muslim Middle East) to continue with its program of assaulting the West. Perish the thought that these ink-stained wankers would ever conceive of such a notion.

Democrats proclaimed the document a devastating indictment of Bush administration policies

To a flea, even the footfall of a horse is an earthquake. The democrats' total lack of any cohesive game plan excludes them from consideration.

jihadist sentiment has so far turned out to hold little attraction for American Muslims

That's because many of them know that there will be little mercy shown to those who willingly undermine America's constitutional law.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-07-18 19:55|| 2007-07-18 19:55|| Front Page Top

#6 Nicely done, Zenster. Thanks! :-)

Posted by trailing wife 2007-07-18 22:53|| 2007-07-18 22:53|| Front Page Top

#7 "It is no shock that the NYT would so easily mistake hot air for real substance; A feat they engineer with stunning regularity."

Word, Zen.

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